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Digital Sales Dip; Stewart Earns Year's 32Nd No.1 Begins at No 13 A WEEKLYO\ ROUNDUP OF NOTABLE CHART ACHIEVEMENTS GEOFF MAYFIELD [email protected] Sting's first classical effort, "Songs From the Labyrinth," Digital Sales Dip; Stewart Earns Year's 32nd No.1 begins at No. 37 on The Billboard 200 with 24,000 There tends to be a moment a units. Naturally, the lute in many Can these comparatively fallow digi- bind five tracks on last issue's 75 -place Great American Songbook Vol. III" showcase is also No.1 on Top Looney Tunes cartoon when a poor sap tal figures merely reflect the yield of the chart. The artists who own this week's bowed two years ago, it was his first No. Classical Albums, where it's like Wile E. Coyote runs past the edge of Oct. 10 album slate? top three album debuts -Stewart, Lloyd 1 album since 1978. Now he's almost the biggest sum for a chart - topper since Andrea Bocelli's a cliff, leading to a startled moment when Rod Stewart's latest bows at No. i with Basks and Jimmy Buffett-are absent making that seem like old hat, as "Still "Sentimento" did 31,000 in he hangs in the air before taking that in- 184,000. That's not an insignificant total, from the Digital Songs list. the Same ... Great Rock Classics of Our February 2003. evitable fall. This week's digital tracks but it is smaller than any of last week's Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" leads that Time" repeats the feat. volume may not be such an "uh oh" mo- top three albums. And, it's the lowest chart with 75,000 units, the lowest total The second, third and fourth volumes Even before Halloween ment, but at least merits a "Huh ?" sum for a No. 1 album since the multi - that a No. 1 Hot Digital Songs title has of Stewart's "Songbook" cycle each had arrives, three Christmas album According to Nielsen decorate The Billboard 200: SoundScan, act "Now 22" ruled for a second week seen since the week ending Jan. 15, when larger opening weeks than "Same." "Now Christmas 3" (No. 94) track downloads amount to 9.6 million with 127,000 sold in the Aug. 19 issue. Bevoncé's "Check On It" with Slim Thug As hinted last week, Stewart's bow and sets from James Taylor for the frame that ended Oct. 15. It's only The top three new entries on this reigned with 61,000. makes 2006 the year with the most No. (No. 151) and Third Day (No. 183). Zero holiday sets were on the fourth tracking week this year in issue's Billboard 200 sell a com5ined There were only three weeks in 2005 1 albums in Billboard history. We've now the chart at this time last year. which such sales fell below 10 million. 491,000, compared with the 994,000 that when the No. 1 on Digital Songs ex- had 32 chart- toppers, exceeding the prior It's also the lowest tally since the week Evanescence, the Killers and George ceeded Hinder's current total, but in this record of 31 that was set in 2003. ending May 14, when 9.5 million Strait moved last week when they bowed year's climate, 75,000 is a modest yield. Diddy should take that mark up one marked this year's lowest tide for digi- on the chart's top three rungs. None of this means to suggest that the higher next issue. Chart watchers make tal track sales. Those three acts had more meaning sk' is falling. I'm confident this year's his "Press Play" the odds -on favorite to Digital album volume for the track- on Hot Digital Songs, too, placing a corn- holiday season will deliver another big lead next week's page, in the range of ing period that informs this issue's iPod Christmas, bringing with it the 150,000 -180,000. STEWA charts isn't as gloomy compared with same sort of heady elevation in Last week, the occasion of the 700th 2006's overall landscape, but that detail weekly volume for digital tracks and No. 1 in the 50 -year history of the album doesn't exactly thrill either. digital albums that we saw after the chart led us to detail several noteworthy Album downloads come in at 621,000, Christmas frames of 2005 and 2004. Billboard 200 milestones. If you want to better than what was tracked in the first But digital distribution sure learn more about the chart's first half - eight months of the year but the lowest would seem like a mightier savior century, check out Joel Whitburn's "The Akon becomes the first lead. take that configuration has seen since if its numbers weren't looking this Billboard Albums," the sixth edition of artist to move two singles the week ending Sept. 10, when 601,000 soft during a time of year when so the Whitburn series previously titled simultaneously into the top 10 on Rhythmic Airplay. Both -"l downloads were tracked. many high -profile artists are corn- "Billboard's Top Pop Albums." Along Wanna Love You" (featurl A week later, digital album volume ing to market. with the vast array of chart and album Snoop Dogg) and "Smac rose to 887,000. Until this issue's Mar- That" (featuring Eminem) nuggets included in past editions, the will be on Akon's "Konvicted," ket Watch, no subsequent week fell lower YOU CAN LOOK IT UP: When new tome adds such details as Grammy due Nov.14. than 683,000 album downloads. Rod Stewart's "Stardust ... The Award achievements. I VIa rIcet Watch A Weekly National Music Sales Report For week ending Oct. 15, 2006. Figures are rounded. Compiled from a national sample of retail store and rack Nielsen Weekly Unit Sales Year -To -Date sales moons Collected and provided by SoundScan STORE DIGITAL ALBUMS SINGLES TRACKS 2005 2006 CHANGE Year -To -Date Album READ FRED BRONSON This Week 10,096,000 48,000 9,595,000 OVERALL UNIT SALES EVERY WEEK AT Sales By Store Type BILLBOARD.COM /FRED Albums last Week 10,457,000 50,000 10,044,000 436,066,000 413,666,000 -5.1% 200million units Change Digital Tracks 257,742,000 438,203,000 70.0% »Where are the Doublemint -3.5% -4.0% -4.5% Store Singles 4,241,000 3,051,000 -28.1% Twins when you need them? TlisWeeklastWar 10,335,000 70,000 6,441,000 This week's Chart Beat has a Total 698,049,000 854,920,000 22.5% 115 tale of two Tims, two Justins Change -2.3% -31.4% 49.0% Abumssf/IMA' 461,840200 457,486,300 and two Gordys. There's also -0.9% 'Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA: with 10 track downloads equivalent 150 news of a reality a star from Weekly Album Sales to one album sale. TV talent competition earning his first No. 1 on a 35 - ""- Billboard chart, and the show isn't "American Idol" DIGITAL TRACKS SALES or 30 "Nashville Star." 100 '05 . /AZT milli $ »Fred Bronson also has full 25 '06 details on the 15th No.1 of 2006 on The Billboard Hot 20 N 100. It's the third No.1 for Ludacris and the + second for 15 50 Pharrell. The same team takes over pole position on Hot SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT 10 R &B /Hip -Hop Songs, where CD 421,751,000 388,037,000 -8.0% Ludacris has his fourth No. 1 and Pharrell collects his third. 5 Digital 11,339,000 23,978,000 111.5% Cassette 2,094,000 935,000 -55.3% 0- 0 Indies Non- Mass Chain J F M A M J J A S O N D J Other 882,000 716,000 -18.8% traditional Merchant Go to www.billboard.biz for complete chart data 81 www.americanradiohistory.com.
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